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PHOTO of the Texel beach nourishment works
Earlier this year, Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis started work on the Texel beach nourishment project ...

U.S., the Netherlands team up on the topic of water
Implementing nature-based engineering solutions is a growing field, but it’s not yet a mainstream pr...

Camperduin and Petten-Zuid beachfill works
The highways and waterways agency Rijkswaterstaat has just announced that preparations are underway ...

A new Cutter Suction Dredger range
25 years after Damen Shipyards first introduced its cutter suction dredging range, it has now unveil...

Combined innovations improve dredging efficiency
Two series of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHD’s) introduced by Damen Shipyards incorporate a ...

Texel beach nourishment project kicks off
Rijkswaterstaat and Boskalis recently commenced work on the Texel beach nourishment project in the N...

Rijkswaterstaat delegation visits USACE Galveston
The USACE Galveston District and non-federal partners Texas General Land Office, together with Gulf ...

Katwijk beach nourishment project starts in September
The Dutch agency Rijkswaterstaat is about to begin a beach nourishment project at Katwijk beach. Acc...

Italdraghe and Torqeedo announce new emission-free electric drives for commercial and working marine vessels
San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy (2nd November 2021) – Torqeedo and Italdraghe todayannounced the jo...

Rijkswaterstaat working on the Holwerd – Ameland route
Rijkswaterstaat recently announced that west of the current Holwerd – Ameland fairway, at buoy...

Beach nourishment and coastal protection along the Dutch coast
Rohde Nielsen’s fleet of hopper dredgers recently completed another coastal protection project...

Zeesluis IJmuiden ready for official opening
In exactly two weeks the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden will be officially put into use by Rij...

NORBIT NORdredge system for real time dredge monitoring
By: Pawel Pocwiardowski, Product Director, Sonar Systems, NORBIT 1. Summary When discussing water tr...

Royal IHC working on new type of hopper dredger
In an innovation partnership with the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat (the Directorate-General for Public Work...

International Guidelines on NNBF for Flood Risk Management
Dr Todd Bridges, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature initiative at the US Army Corps of Eng...

World’s largest sea lock almost ready for traffic
This summer, OpenIJ – a consortium of construction companies building the IJmuiden lock – will deliv...

Celebrating 10 Years of the Sand Motor
In 2011 the Dutch government started a pilot project named the Sand Motor. An artificial sandbank, a...

TSHD Vox Amalia Starts First Job
Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Vox Amalia successfully started its first pr...

Rotterdam Contract for Boskalis
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has won a multi-year contract for a maintenance dredging project in ...

Botlek Dredging Wraps Up
The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) and the Port of Rott...

Maintaining the Katwijk's Coast
Boskalis, a Dutch dredging and heavylift company, has successfully wrapped up a coastal protection...

Botlek Deepening Inaugurated
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has officially inaugurated the deepening of the Nieuwe Waterweg and ...